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Prosecuting barrister Brian FitzHerbert told the jury how the incident took place at the Trelander estate on the evening of July 27 last year.

Opening the case yesterday, Mr FitzHerbert said: “At 7.30pm the victim was with some of his friends and a girl asked him to come outside and come around the corner as she wanted to talk to him. But once around the corner she said she couldn’t remember what she wanted to say and left.

Trelander Highway which cuts through the Trelander housing estate in Truro near where a teenager was stabbed in the back (Image: Olivier Vergnault)

“The victim then saw a person waiting for him wearing tracksuit bottoms, a hoody and a black facemask. The person then ran at him and punched him in the side of the head before the victim felt a blow to his back.

“The attacker was then heard to say, ‘what you chatting blud?’ and ran off.”

The victim, who also cannot be named, then noticed a substantial wound before the emergency services were called.

Mr FitzHerbert said: “As the victim was taken out to the ambulance he heard (someone associated with the defendant) say ‘as soon as you’re out of hospital you’ll go back in again'.

“The victim said he knew who the attacker was as he recognised his voice and build and had seen him wearing the mask before.”

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The victim denied the defendant’s assertion that the two had had a dispute in the hours leading up to the stabbing, saying that he hadn’t seen him or spoken to him at the location that night. He said that he didn’t approach him while he was smoking, saying the first time he saw him was when he was taken around the corner.

The victim said that the pair were not face to face when he was struck and disputed the claim that he launched a rugby tackle.

Mr Quaife then put three points to the victim, to which he replied “incorrect” to each.

The questions asked were, “the defendant says he hadn’t contacted you on Facebook at all”, “he says he didn’t admit to stabbing you on Facebook” and “he says he didn’t threaten you on Facebook”.

The defendant is expected to give his full version of events during his defence this afternoon or tomorrow morning.